Glad I could provide entertainment 👁️👄👁️

You mean Favlwty Towers?

How to operate as a Staff Product Designer Q&A with Milan Jovanović, Mo Elmelegy and Rachel Wu.

At the senior level, you’re asking, “How do we build this well?” At Staff, you’re asking, “Should we be building this at all, and if so, why?” It’s not about doing more of the same thing better. It’s about doing a fundamentally different kind of thing.

verifiedinsider.substack.com/p/how-to-ope...

A Practical Guide To Design Principles — Smashing Magazine Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.

Design principles can be personal, but usually they are committed to and shaped by the entire product team. Design principles aren’t just for designers. User’s experience is everything from performance to support to customer service.

www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/04/prac...

Your Best Prompt Is a Well-Defined User Story The best results with agentic development come from well-structured prompts that clearly describe the problem - essentially a good user story.

A well-defined story with clear context, specific acceptance criteria, and a technical hypothesis isn’t just good practice anymore. It’s a strong starting point for a prompt.

spin.atomicobject.com/user-story-a...

Designers finally have a say in the product they design AI didn’t teach designers to code. It gave them back the decisions that were always theirs.

The developer implementing your component isn’t ignoring the detail you put in. They’re solving a different problem — architecture, logic, performance, the parts of the stack that sit far from the surface.

uxdesign.cc/designers-fi...

Portfolio tips — Edgard Kozlowski Tips from designer friends on what they like to see in portfolios.

Think of it like a trailer and a movie. The trailer gets people interested. The movie tells the full story. Your portfolio is the trailer. The interview is where you go deeper into your process and decisions.

www.edkf.fyi/portfolio-ti...

Craft is Untouchable - Christopher Butler AI doesn't threaten craft—the temptation to skip iteration does.

Structure still communicates before content. Visual hierarchy still guides attention. Negative space still creates rhythm.

The craft migrates to a different level of abstraction. But it remains craft.

www.chrbutler.com/craft-is-unt...

That’s wild.

Ah yes the rectangle designer vs actual designer problem 😭

That sounds like a great job.

Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished on the other side.

What do you mean a Markov chain isn’t a good way to do fact checking 👁️👄👁️

If the file isn’t very complicated I do that with frames and sections, so like:

1 - Onboarding [section]
1.x - Onboarding main flow
1.x.y - Onboarding sub flows

I normally do numbered sections by flow, so like 1.1 - Onboarding

Of course not.

Public Domain Library - Free ebooks Download free eBooks in ePub, Kindle, or Kobo format.

Holy moly, publicdomainlibrary.org/en/ is a gorgeous website, complete with unified cover design system.

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

I am going to be sharing this article a *lot*

What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job

is what unions are actually for.

HR exists to protect companies from lawsuits, nothing else.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*

Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.

GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH

github.com/settings/cop...

The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

Seven foreign doctors and aid workers who volunteered in Gaza described a perverse situation in which Israel permits doctors into Gaza but not medical equipment—even months into a supposed ceasefire—prompting several to smuggle medical supplies in, even as they treat new casualties of war.

Wait until you hear about Polish Kielecki vs Winiary holy war

Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated Should product design teams be 100% creative, effective, or a middle ground between both? How do you know a product design is succeeding…

The discussion about why design teams don’t achieve the impact they should in companies isn’t solely the companies’ fault. We designers, in part, have built a path and a perception of our work that keeps us at that level.

uxdesign.cc/leading-desi...

Share the charts Stu

“The designer who remains employed after the restructuring of the last few years now works inside a specific arrangement, in fewer in number, responsible for more surface area, equipped with tools that generate output at a rate that exceeds any single person's capacity to evaluate it critically.”

Why You Should Design Layout Content Blocks Instead of Full Templates Design has become more fluid, more adaptive, and far more collaborative than it was even a few years ago. With teams building digital experiences that need to work across countless devices and content...

Blocks let designers build smarter, collaborate faster, and create layouts that feel consistent and adaptable across any device or content type.
Modular approach supports healthier ecosystems and gives teams the freedom to experiment without breaking structure.

designshack.net/articles/lay...